Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on Feb. 19, 2010). The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. Dr. Randy Curry, Thesis Supervisor Includes bibliographical references.

Student Number : 9608998A - MSc dissertation - School of Electrical and Information Engineering - Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment / The history of flux compression is relatively short. One of the founders, a Russian physicist, Sakharov developed the idea of compressing a magnetic field to generate high magnetic fields and from this he also developed a generator to produce current impulses. Most of this initial work was performed in military research laboratories. The first open source literature became available in the 1960s and from there it has become an international research arena. There are two types of flux compression generators, field generators and current generators. These are discussed along with the basic theory of flux compression generators and related physics. The efficiency of generators is often quite low. However in many generators high explosives are used and because of their high energy density, the current or field strength produced is substantially greater then the initial source. This of course limits the locations possible for experimental work and subsequently limits the industrial applications of flux compression generators . This research presents a theoretical design for a non-explosive flux compression generator. The generator is designed to produce a current impulse for tests in laboratory and remote locations. The generator has the advantage of being non-destructive, therefore reducing costs, and allowing for repeatable experiments. The design also reduces the possibilities or many of the loss mechanisms.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Nevada, Reno, 2005. / "August 2005." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 118-127). Online version available on the World Wide Web.

This thesis presents work performed on explosively driven magnetic flux compression generators. This kind of devices converts the chemically stored energy in a high explosive into electromagnetic energy in the form of a powerful current pulse. The high energy density of the high explosives makes flux compression generators attractive as compact power sources. In order to study these devices a generator was designed at FOI in the mid-90ies. Two generators remained unused and became available for this licentiate work. The thesis reports experiments with, and simulations of, the operation of the two remaining generators. The aim was to fully understand the performance of the generator design and be able to accurately simulate its behaviour. The generators were improved and fitted with various types of diagnostics to monitor the generator operation. Two experiments were performed of which the first generator was operated well below its current capability limits while the second was stressed far above its limits. Since the generator generates a rapidly increasing current, a current measurement is the most important diagnostic revealing the current amplification of the generator and its overall performance. Further it is important to measure the timing of various events in the generator. With a common time reference it is possible to combine data from different probes and extract interesting information which cannot be directly obtained with a single measurement. Two types of numerical simulations have been performed: Hydrodynamic simulations of the high explosive interaction with the armature were used to verify the measured armature dynamics. A zero-dimensional code was used to perform circuit simulations of the generator. The model takes into account the inductance reduction due to the compression of the generator as well as the change in conductivity due to heating of the conductors in the generators. / QC 20101103